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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Kids of today will likely miss Roblox in 15-20 years, but it's unlikely they'll have the chance to play the stuff they missed during their childhoods (programming.dev)

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Reminiscing on how kids of the 80s, 90s and 00s can all get games of their respective times via emulation and piracy, but anything inside Roblox is likely to be inaccessible when present day kids become adults and look back with nostalgia

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How? They continue to develop Java alongside Bedrock and maintain both equally. Microsoft has had a decade to wind down Java but they don't. It seems like a general distrust of Microsoft is tainting their support for a developer, which history shows is inaccurate.

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microsoft has been developing Minecraft for less than five years and ever since they have slowly been moving away from the FOSS-ish development style.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Independent Mojang never had a FOSS-ish development style. For the most direct thing, Minecraft only released code deobfuscation mappings after five years of being a Microsoft subsidiary.